story: CHAPTER II 
  
  THE APARTMENT-HOUSE MYSTERY 
  
  1. 
  
  "This habit of becoming late for breakfast," Lady Ashleigh remarked, as she set down the coffee-pot, "is growing upon your father." 
  
  Ella glanced up from a pile of correspondence through which she had been looking a little negligently. 
  
  "When he comes," she said, "I shall tell him what Clyde says in his new play--that unpunctuality for breakfast and overpunctuality for dinner are two of the signs of advancing age." 
  
  "I shouldn't," her mother advised. "He hates anything that sounds like an epigram, and I noticed that he avoided any allusion to his birthday last month. Any news, dear?" 
  
  "None at all, mother. My correspondence is just the usual sort of rubbish--invitations and gossip. Such a lot of invitations, by-the-bye." 
  
  "At your age," Lady Ashleigh declared, "that is the sort of correspondence which you should find interesting." 
  
  Ella shook her head. She was a very beautiful young woman, but her expression was a little more serious than her twenty-two years warranted. 
  
  "You know I am not like that, mother," she protested. "I have found one thing in life which interests me more than all this frivolous business of amusing oneself. I shall never be happy--not really happy--until I have settled down to study hard. My music is really the only part of life which absolutely appeals to me." 
  
  Lady Ashleigh sighed. 
  
  "It seems so unnecessary," she murmured. "Since Esther was married you are practically an only daughter, you are quite well off, and there are so many young men who want to marry you." 
questions: WHat is this passage talking about?
questions: Who has a habit of becoming late for breakfast?
questions: How old was Ella?
questions: Does she have an older sibling?
questions: What was the name?
questions: Who is the mother?
questions: What amused Ella?
questions: Did the mother think it was unneccessary?
questions: What are the two signs of advancing age as mentioned in Clyde's play?
questions: Are there many men who want to marry Ella?
answers: unknown
answers: unknown
answers: the father
answers: "This habit of becoming late for breakfast," Lady Ashleigh remarked, as she set down the coffee-pot, "is growing upon your father." 
answers: twenty-two years
answers: Ella shook her head. She was a very beautiful young woman, but her expression was a little more serious than her twenty-two years warranted. 
answers: unknown
answers: unknown
answers: Esther
answers: "Since Esther was married you are practically an only daughter
answers: Lady Ashleigh
answers: Lady Ashleigh sighed. 
answers: her music
answers: My music is really the only part of life which absolutely appeals to me." 
answers: Yes
answers: Lady Ashleigh sighed. 
  
  "It seems so unnecessary," she murmured. 
answers: unpunctuality for breakfast and overpunctuality for dinner
answers:  Clyde says in his new play--that unpunctuality for breakfast and overpunctuality for dinner are two of the signs of advancing age." 
answers: Yes
answers: "Since Esther was married you are practically an only daughter, you are quite well off, and there are so many young men who want to marry you."